08
Dec 2014
According to the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor, patients are being sent home too early from hospital, and in many cases before it is safe for them to leave, putting them at serious risk and adding a “massive cost” to the NHS for emergency readmissions. She added serious failings such as missed cancer…
08
Dec 2014
In an attempt to improve patient safety, new figures have shown that £2.5bn was spent last year on part-time agency staff by NHS hospitals. The overspend has been driven by hospital bosses employing more nursing staff in an attempt to improve patient safety in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, and also by…
05
Dec 2014
A public consultation on draft joint guidance has been launched by the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council, to encourage doctors, nurses and midwifes to be open and honest about mistakes. The guidance covers the need to learn from when something goes wrong and a patient is harmed in some way, as…
05
Dec 2014
A new report by the General Medical Council has found that junior doctors still lack the confidence to whistle-blow on patient safety concerns, with nearly one in 10 experiencing bullying in the workplace. The survey of 50,000 trainee doctors saw a considerable decline in the amount of raised patient safety concerns (0.8 per cent compared…
02
Dec 2014
Health think tank the King’s Fund has said that £2bn should be provided to NHS England next year. The call for extra money has come at a time when the deficit is increasing and performance is deteriorating, with targets being breached for cancer treatment, hospital operations and accident and emergency waiting times. In the last…
28
Nov 2014
It has been reported that the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is the third worst Trust in the country for complaints filed against it. The Trust includes Pontefract, Pinderfields and Dewsbury hospitals. More than 1,400 people filed a complaint against the Trust. 67 complaints were referred to the Ombudsman, 15 of which were investigated and…
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